A Tale of Family Intrigue and Inheritance

Most upsetting to the family is Mr. Basilicati-Cardin’s claim that he is Mr. Cardin’s sole heir. He said that Mr. Cardin’s wishes were detailed in a will dated Nov. 10, 2016, which Mr. Basilicati-Cardin said he discovered last year in Mr. Cardin’s apartment in Paris, just as heirs who are in favor of selling received…

Julia Fox Gets Dirty to Come Clean

​​How did Julia Fox go from unruly teenager, with her face plastered on missing persons fliers put up by her parents across New York City, to tabloid fixture, with her face plastered on Supreme ads? The story is messy, tense and sometimes tragic — and that covers only what she decided to include in “Down…

How to Take Better Watch Photos

In an industry whose lingua franca is the #wristshot (3.2 million tags on Instagram and counting), photographs of watches can often look redundant and uninspired. In 2020, during the pandemic, James Kong, then a corporate lawyer in New York, sought to change that. He had purchased a new camera and resolved to post one new…